username doesn't work

[MCCALL,DON (HP-USA,ex1)]

Hi Brain,
This parameter is really only useful in share level security,
where a password is passed in the tconnX smb.  In user level
security, you never get to this point, because you have to pass
thru the sessionsetup&x smb, which is going to pass a USERNAME 
and PASSWORD to the server, and the server is either going to 
validate it or NOT. if NOT (and smbclient without a -U will pass
the UNIX username that you are running it from), then you never 
get to the point where a tconnX is done.
If you want to make sure (in userlevel security) that ONLY 
mary or jack can access this share, you could use the 
'valid users= mary,jack' instead under user level security.
This may all be moot, if you really are using share level security
(security = share in the global section of smb.conf); but since 
you didn't show that part of the smb.conf, I'm making a guess here
that you are using the default of security=user...
Let me know if I'm off here!
Hope this helps,
Don

-----Original Message-----
From: brain at ghost.btnet.cz [mailto:brain at ghost.btnet.cz]
Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 4:48 AM
To: samba at samba.org
Subject: username doesn't work


Hello.

I've got samba 2.0.6. My smb.conf file contains:

---------
[myhome]
        comment = My Home
        path = /home/myhome
        username = mary, jack
        read only = No
--------

When I run:    smbclient '//mycomputer/myhome'
and type valid password for mary or jack.

The answer is:

--------
Password:
session setup failed: ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password - name/password pair
in a Tree
Connect or Session Setup are invalid.)
--------

When I specify user with e.g. "-U mary" everything goes well.


The documentation says:

--------
NOTE ABOUT USERNAME/PASSWORD VALIDATION
.
.
.
.

    5. Step 5: If a "user = " field is given in the smb.conf file for the
service and
       the client has supplied a password, and that password matches
(according to the
       UNIX system's password checking) with one of the usernames from the
user= field
       then the connection is made as the username in the "user=" line. If
one of the
       username in the user= list begins with a '@' then that name expands
to a list of
       names in the group of the same name.

--------

"guest user" is set to "no" (by default) so step 5 isn't skipped.

"username" is an alias for "user", but I tried "user" too and result is the
same.

smbclient '//mycomputer/myhome%jack' doesn't work too


So something's wrong. Please, can you help me?

Thanx.


--------------------------------
Petr `Brain' Kulhavy
<brain at artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~brain
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University Prague, Czech
Republic

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